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Stephen Elliott Posts: 1776 Joined: Oct. 2005 (Permalink) Posted: Aug. 03 2007,01:39    Where does the idea that the Earth/Universe is 6-10K years old come from? I have heard by anecdote that this idea comes from the bible by guessing at age through generations that are named. Is that it? Is this realy stil only down to Lighfoot/Usher?

"Rev Dr" Lenny Flank Posts: 2560 Joined: Feb. 2005 (Permalink) Posted: Aug. 03 2007,06:55    Basically, yeah, that's it.  So the hardcore Biblical literalalists take a young earth as, literally, Gospel. They try to dress it up with a lot of scientific-sounding BS, but it all boils down to "Da Bible says so". -------------- Editor, Red and Black Publishers www.RedandBlackPublishers.com

skeptic Posts: 1163 Joined: May 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Aug. 03 2007,07:46    There's nothing in the Bible that says so, this is just one man's interpretation and some people have run with it.

Erasmus, FCD Posts: 6349 Joined: June 2007 (Permalink) Posted: Aug. 03 2007,08:15    yeah ussher is the culprit.  no ussher, no wacko 'creation science' for they have attempted to affirm the consequent. see Sal 'i believe the earth is young because of the genealogy of christ'. edited:  gaah consequent for antecedent -------------- You're obviously illiterate as hell. Peach, bro.-FtK Finding something hard to believe based on the evidence, is science.-JoeG the odds of getting some loathsome taint are low-- Gordon E Mullings Manjack Heights Montserrat I work on molecular systems with pathway charts and such.-Giggles

Tracy P. Hamilton Posts: 1239 Joined: May 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Aug. 03 2007,09:03    Quote (Erasmus @ FCD,Aug. 03 2007,08:15) yeah ussher is the culprit.  no ussher, no wacko 'creation science' for they have attempted to affirm the consequent. see Sal 'i believe the earth is young because of the genealogy of christ'. edited:  gaah consequent for antecedent I imagine Sal Cordova at a geology conference holding a sign that says 6K years old, and waving it while shouting "The genealogy of Christ compels you!  The genealogy of Christ compels you!" -------------- "Following what I just wrote about fitness, you’re taking refuge in what we see in the world."  PaV "The simple equation F = MA leads to the concept of four-dimensional space." GilDodgen "We have no brain, I don't, for thinking." Robert Byers

ppb Posts: 325 Joined: Dec. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Aug. 03 2007,11:29    This is just my own idle speculation, not based on any research, so take it for what it's worth.  I think a part of it is the idea that the story of Creation is all about Us.  The bible takes us from the garden through the fall, redemption, second coming.  God's history is human history.  Why would God be doing stuff with the universe for billions of years without us?  :) -------------- "[A scientific theory] describes Nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And it agrees fully with experiment. So I hope you can accept Nature as She is - absurd." - Richard P. Feynman

"Rev Dr" Lenny Flank Posts: 2560 Joined: Feb. 2005 (Permalink) Posted: Aug. 03 2007,17:38    Quote (skeptic @ Aug. 03 2007,07:46) There's nothing in the Bible that says so, this is just one man's interpretation and some people have run with it. Alas, there is nothing in the Bible that says ANYTHING --- it's just a book, and like ALL books, what it "says" depends entirely and totally upon the interpretations of the person reading it. (shrug) -------------- Editor, Red and Black Publishers www.RedandBlackPublishers.com

mitschlag Posts: 236 Joined: Sep. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Aug. 03 2007,18:53    Quote (ppb @ Aug. 03 2007,11:29) This is just my own idle speculation, not based on any research, so take it for what it's worth.  I think a part of it is the idea that the story of Creation is all about Us.  The bible takes us from the garden through the fall, redemption, second coming.  God's history is human history.  Why would God be doing stuff with the universe for billions of years without us?  :) Profound insight.  Seems worth a lot to me. -------------- "You can establish any “rule” you like if you start with the rule and then interpret the evidence accordingly." - George Gaylord Simpson (1902-1984)

Stephen Elliott Posts: 1776 Joined: Oct. 2005 (Permalink) Posted: Aug. 04 2007,00:41    Quote ("Rev Dr" Lenny Flank @ Aug. 03 2007,06:55) Basically, yeah, that's it.  So the hardcore Biblical literalalists take a young earth as, literally, Gospel. They try to dress it up with a lot of scientific-sounding BS, but it all boils down to "Da Bible says so". Except (AFAIK) it doesn't. The whole argument seems weird to me. Some guy has a guess at the antiquity of Earth by using the geneology in scripture and that becomes "gospel" for whackos?

Louis Posts: 6436 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Aug. 04 2007,06:14    Quote ("Rev Dr" Lenny Flank @ Aug. 03 2007,23:38) Quote (skeptic @ Aug. 03 2007,07:46) There's nothing in the Bible that says so, this is just one man's interpretation and some people have run with it. Alas, there is nothing in the Bible that says ANYTHING --- it's just a book, and like ALL books, what it "says" depends entirely and totally upon the interpretations of the person reading it. (shrug) "No man ever believes the Bible means what it says. He is always convinced the Bible says what he means." George Bernard Shaw from a Saturday Review article, April 16th, 1895. -------------- Bye.

k.e Posts: 1948 Joined: Mar. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Aug. 04 2007,08:04    Marge, everything is a sin. You ever sat down and read [the bible]? Technically, we're not allowed to go to the bathroom.Rev. Lovejoy: -------------- The conservative has but little to fear from the man whose reason is the servant of his passions, but let him beware of him in whom reason has become the greatest and most terrible of the passions.These are the wreckers of outworn empires and civilisations, doubters, disintegrators, deicides.Haldane

Arden Chatfield Posts: 6657 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Aug. 06 2007,10:50    Quote (ppb @ Aug. 03 2007,11:29) This is just my own idle speculation, not based on any research, so take it for what it's worth.  I think a part of it is the idea that the story of Creation is all about Us.  The bible takes us from the garden through the fall, redemption, second coming.  God's history is human history.  Why would God be doing stuff with the universe for billions of years without us?  :) That's often occurred to me, that a certain kind of fundie is very uncomfortable with the idea that the Earth should have been around for 4.5 billion years before Jeebus showed up. And billions of years with no people AT ALL? That must make a lot of people feel much less special. A young earth would be more pleasing to such people, since it bolsters the idea that earth was created just for Jesus to show up. This would help fundies feel even more like the center of the universe. -------------- "Rich is just mad because he thought all titties had fur on them until last week when a shorn transvestite ruined his childhood dreams by jumping out of a spider man cake and man boobing him in the face lips." - Erasmus

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